IGN’s RPG Vault caught up with Eve Online’s Chief Marketing Officer, Magnus Bergsson, for a short interview and retrospective on the little MMORPG that could. Covering everything from how they gracefully handled the fallout that ensued after Eve publisher, Simon and Schuster’s demise, to their slow growth into one of the more successful massive multiplayers on the market, with over 170,000 subscribers, no small feat for an Icelandic games developer who self-publishes and only distributes their game online. Bergsson also touched upon the future of Eve, such as the upcoming factional warfare which is following the storyline towards war between the various races in the game, as well as the new invention system, which will allow players to invent new items in-game, complementing the completely player-driven economy quite nicely.

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